Heavy-Ion Physics and Scientific Machine Learning - Postdoctoral Researcher

Demonstrated research experience in experimental nuclear or particle physics.

Experience analyzing large scientific datasets using ROOT, Python, C++, or similar scientific software frameworks.

Experience developing scientific software in Linux environments using modern programming practices.

Experience with statistical analysis and uncertainty quantification.

Experience with the ATLAS, sPHENIX, RHIC, LHC, CMS, ALICE, or STAR collider experiments.

Experience with jet physics, heavy-ion collisions, and detector performance studies.

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Position Information

This is a Postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years, open to those who have been awarded a PhD at time of hire date.

Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

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to contribute to experimental heavy-ion physics, detector development, and scientific machine learning within Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Particle Physics Group.

You will play a leading role in the analysis of data from the sPHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the ATLAS experiment at CERN, while contributing to DOE Office of Science Nuclear Physics (DOE-NP) and Genesis Mission-funded research milestones focused on advanced AI methods for nuclear physics.

Research activities span precision measurements of jet quenching, ultra-peripheral collisions, detector performance studies, and the development of next-generation machine learning techniques for particle reconstruction and multimodal data analysis.

This position is in the Particle Physics Group within the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division.

Perform physics analyses using data from the ATLAS and sPHENIX experiments to study the quark-gluon plasma, jet quenching, and heavy-ion collisions.

Participate in detector operations, commissioning, calibration, performance studies, and data quality monitoring within the ATLAS and sPHENIX collaborations.

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